Goal I’m attempting to set up a router box in to replace my SFR router on a home network. As my SFR plan has native IPv6, this box will request a prefix delegation and set up IPv6 routing for the computers on the home network. It will also handle NAT for IPv4.
This is supposed to be a drop-in replacement for the SFR provided box, so it will have to:

Background At work we have to large TV screens used for displaying Grafana dashboards. They are both connected to the same PC.
The PC was running Windows so anytime the PC would reboot, we would have to manually conenct to it via VNC and move the browsers around and set them in full screen mode.
As we are in the office only during work hours, the PC would be shut down and restarted everyday.

Sometimes you need to do some complex actions in a Salt Reactor in which case Python comes in handy.
The documentation is not very clear on how to write Python states. The main point is that Salt expects a structure that can be compiled to a Python dictionary. The run() function has to return a dictionary which resembles the state you would write with YAML.
Here’s an example to add a domain to route 53:

The DHCP Option 121 is described here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3442. It allows the DHCP server to send a classless route.
In PFSense, one can add this option by setting the type to string. The catch is that the length is variable, according to the netmask length.
For example, to add 10.0.0.0/8 via 10.100.5.1, the HEX is: 08:0A:0A:64:05:01

If you want to use the Dell iDrac with a certificate signed by your CA, the web gui allows you to create a CSR, and upload the signed certificate. But if for some reason you want to generate the certificate and key outside of iDrac, the gui doesn’t offer a way to upload the key.
There is a way to use fully custom certificates, but it requires the racadm command line utility.